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Oilers overcome Mike Smith's brutal blunder in Game 4 victory vs. Flames

The Edmonton Oilers didn't let it linger.

After a humiliating moment from netminder Mike Smith, where he watched an estimated 132-foot clearance from Rasmus Andersson skip into the back of his net while the Oilers clung to a one-goal lead, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins stepped up for his netminder, scoring a go-ahead goal late in Game 4 to lift the Oilers to a 5-3 victory over the Calgary Flames and a 3-1 series stranglehold.

Nugent-Hopkins' eventual game-winner with under four minutes remaining placed bookends on the scoring at the time. He scored the first goal of the game 21 seconds in after Flames netminder Jacob Markstrom suffered from a critical error of his own.